Get Ready (Acquittals loom in the Inglewood cop trial)

National Review OnLine ^ | July 17, 2003 | Jack Dunphy

[End Times Sentinel]

Batten down the hatches L.A.

 

Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

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[Wil H]

Terrel, who on his local radio show bills himself as "the fair-minded civil-rights attorney,"

I saw the "fair-minded civil-rights attorney" on Hannity and Colmes last night, he screamed, shouted and pointed his finger for the entire segment. He did not let anyone get a word in edgewise and howled over the other, very calm and reasoned contributor (Mr McWhorter - who is also black) that he was a "black apologist and a sell out to his race"

Terrel is the quintessential example of a black racist. He also proudly proclaimed that he was a product of affirmative action, a more compelling argument against which I could not imagine.

[Moose4]

Maybe the LAPD will get a chance to use all those armored cars, M16s, and paramilitary gear they've been stocking up on.

Oh. My bad, that's only to be used on Second Amendment defenders and tax evaders, not on black rioters.

}:-)4

[onedoug]

I was ready for the SOBs then, and I'll be ready again.

[islander-11]

Great lesson from the last riot - the Korean shopkeepers who armed themselves and saved their businesses. The founding fathers were right to give us the RIGHT to keep and bear arms!

Good luck and stay safe, onedoug!

[Grut]

...while he considered Morse's treatment of Jackson excessive, it did not rise to the level that would warrant criminal charges.

"did not rise to the level"... hmm, where have we heard that before? Practically guarantees both innocence and nonconviction. Just because we have video of the guy getting his face bounced off a car doesn't mean getting your face bounced off a car isn't just one of those things... noooo....

[End Times Sentinel]

I was ready for the SOBs then, and I'll be ready again.

Stay armed and stay safe onedoug!

 

 

Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[JudyB1938]

As far as I am concerned, this is not a black/white issues. Nor is it an attack on honorable law enforcement offiers. It is "them" (jack-booted thugs) against "us" (citizens).

I can understand the need for force when the person is fighting the officer, but from the video I saw, this was some young, scared kid who was brutalized by a weight-lifting, steroid-taking (probably), sadist egotist. I hope they throw the book at those cops and send them to where their muscles will do the most good ... digging ditches!

[Redcloak]

And to add to the mix: It's been really hot here lately. It's 104° in the Valley right now. Temps are usually cooler "over the hill", but it's probably still pretty warm in the 'hood. There's no talk of a marked cooling trend any time soon.

[Just another Joe]

IMO, bouncing the kid off the trunk was nothing. You can see as much on the TV show COPS.
It was the punch in the jaw after the kid was in handcuffs that warrants looking into.
I don't care if the someone knees you in the b*lls and bites your leg right behind the knee, after they're in handcuffs and are being held by other LEOs you don't take a swing because you're pi$$ed.

[.38sw]

All that furniture heisted in the '92 Rodney King riots is bound to be a bit threadbare by now, so some people may be looking forward to a shopping spree, one for which the bill never comes.

Kinda sums it up nicely.

[End Times Sentinel]

from the video I saw, this was some young, scared kid who was brutalized by a weight-lifting, steroid-taking (probably), sadist egotist. .

Keep in mind that if an alien arrived at Normandy on June 6, 1944, he'd wonder why the hyper aggressive Allies were attacking the peaceful Germans unprovoked.  Until you've seen the entire video as well as the station security tape and not just the last 12 seconds of video that clearly doesn't show not only what led up to the incident, or what Jackson's hands were doing, all side's testimony deserve equal hearing.

The assumption that you're drawing is very similar to that which many people drew after seeing the final 16 seconds of the Rodney King video tape.  When one watches the entire tape and sees King throwing the officers around like rag dolls in a PCP induced rage, you come away with quite a different take on the episode, which goes a long way toward explaining the Simi Valley verdict.

 

Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[L,TOWM]

What you did'nt see Judy, is the handful of family jewels that the kid had got a grip on when the cuffs were being put on.

Of course, the cuffs would'nt have been put on at all, except for this fine young man DISOBEYING POLICE OFFICERS instructions to stay away from where they were writing his poppa a "fix it" ticket. So this pillar of the community is cruising around in a car that did'nt have its annual registration current, and his mentally deffective kid comes at the cops when they tell him to keep his distance.

The kid a grip on the cop's balls for a full 5 seconds, the cop told him "let go" twice, AND ONLY THEN, coldcocked him.

I would have shot the dumba$$. Jack booted thugs, my clymer...

[L,TOWM]

Another one of "The Brownshirts are coming for us" crowd chimes in...

[usadave]

I can understand the need for force when the person is fighting the officer, but from the video I saw, this was some young, scared kid who was brutalized by a weight-lifting, steroid-taking (probably), sadist egotist. I hope they throw the book at those cops and send them to where their muscles will do the most good ... digging ditches!

From the testimony presented at the trial, the kid brutalized the police officer by reaching back and grabbing and then squeezing the police officer's genitals. The kid ought to be charged with assault on a police officer.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I think the troops fending off the firebomb are from the UK. Unless, of course, the LAPD is issuing Enfield Bullpups.

[End Times Sentinel]

LOL!  You are correct sir!  I did a google search on LA riots and selected whatever photo had flames and didn't have, say, a camel walking around in it.  Odd what comes up in those searches.

Good eye!

 

Owl_Eagle
" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[Poohbah]

From the testimony presented at the trial, the kid brutalized the police officer by reaching back and grabbing and then squeezing the police officer's genitals.

Does the kid have five-foot-long arms? That's about the only thing that would explain how he grabbed the cop's package.

[newwahoo]

"I don't care if the someone knees you in the b*lls and bites your leg right behind the knee, after they're in handcuffs and are being held by other LEOs you don't take a swing because you're pi$$ed."

Why not? Handcuffs are "restraint devices". Their use does not automatically mean that the individual has been restrained.